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Metric unit of area Image comparing the hectare (the small blue area at lower left) to other units. The entire yellow square is one square mile. The hectare (; SI symbol: ha) is a non-SI metric unit of area equal to a square with 100-metre sides (1 hm2), that is, 10,000 square meters (10,000 m2), and …

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Proposed crisis predictor from pizza orders The Pizza Meter refers to sudden increases of pizza orders from U.S. government offices, such as the White House and The Pentagon, before large events such as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Panama Invasion, and the Grenada invasion. On the night of August …

Conspirituality is a portmanteau neologism describing the overlap of conspiracy theories with spirituality, typically of New Age varieties.[1][2] Contemporary conspirituality became common in the 1990s.[3] Characterization[edit] The term was coined for the 2011 study “The Emergence of Conspirituality” by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas published in the Journal of Contemporary Religion. They characterized the …

Higher-order function Y for which Y f = f (Y f) In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator),[1]: p.26  denoted fix {displaystyle {textsf {fix}}} , is a higher-order function (which takes a function as argument) that returns some fixed point (a value that is mapped to itself) of its argument function, …

British planned aircraft carrier made of pykrete Conceptual design of Project Habakkuk aircraft carrier with 600-metre (1,969 ft) runway Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats …

United States legislation promoting the semiconductor industry and public basic research “CHIPS Act” redirects here. For other uses, see Chips Act. CHIPS and Science Act Other short titles CHIPS Act of 2022 Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act Supreme Court Security Funding Act of 2022 Long title Making appropriations for Legislative Branch for the …

Effect of learned behavior on evolution The Baldwin effect compared to Lamarck’s theory of evolution, Darwinian evolution, and Waddington’s genetic assimilation. All the theories offer explanations of how organisms respond to a changed environment with adaptive inherited change. In evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect describes an effect of learned behaviour on evolution. James Mark Baldwin …

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Project Bacchus was a covert investigation by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency US Defense Department to determine whether it is possible to construct a bioweapons production facility with off-the-shelf equipment. History[edit] The project[edit] Project Bacchus operated from 1999-2000 to investigate whether would-be terrorists could build an anthrax production facility and …

Unconventional wording, linguistic errors etc. in speeches and interviews by George W. Bush George W. Bush speaking to a Joint Session of Congress, February 2001 Bushisms are unconventional statements, phrases, pronunciations, possible Freudian slips, malapropisms, misfired attempts at sarcasm, as well as semantic or linguistic errors in the public speaking of former President of the …

Tax dispute involving Apple, Ireland, and the EU Apple’s EU tax dispute refers to an investigation by the European Commission into tax arrangements between Apple and Ireland, which allowed the company to pay close to zero corporate tax over 10 years.[1] On 29 August 2016, after a two-year investigation, Margrethe Vestager of the European Commission …